Best vMSA/vDSASet up for Magic DK

ARIES SERPICO

Post your builds- Skills, CP, Gear used to smash these trials.
Any tips and Tricks?

Masel

ARIES SERPICO wrote: »

Post your builds- Skills, CP, Gear used to smash these trials.
Any tips and Tricks?

vMA, go 5 infallible aether, 5 sergeants mail with 1 piece kena until you have a vMA lightning and resto staff and leftclick everything to death. There is no build that is easier to play in there.

Currently at rank 67 vMA overall leaderboards with 559k score from last night, my setup was 5 sergeant, 5 aether, sharpened vMA lightning staff, sharpened vMA restoration staff. It's weird, but trust me, it's awesome.

Main bar:
dampen magic, molten armaments, elemental blockade, dragonscales, inner light, thunderous rage.

Back bar:
Dampen magic (for safety), healing ward, rapid regen, Eruption, inner light, shooting star.

Here's a run from my time when I used elegance instead of sergeant (sergeant is a lot better), but it shows the ease of it pretty well:

https://youtu.be/FjQPiA5XENk

Got flawless conqueror on my third run on the mag dk with that.

For vdsa, you can go with the meta or try this:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/309550/elemental-fury-pve-dps-dk-build-1t-ready#latest

It really melts everything in there and gives the other dd minor force for free, and aether debuff on enemies. If you don't have the vma lightning, go with any crafted sharpened lightning staff.

ARIES SERPICO

Masel92 wrote: »

ARIES SERPICO wrote: »

Post your builds- Skills, CP, Gear used to smash these trials.
Any tips and Tricks?

vMA, go 5 infallible aether, 5 sergeants mail with 1 piece kena until you have a vMA lightning and resto staff and leftclick everything to death. There is no build that is easier to play in there.

Currently at rank 67 vMA overall leaderboards with 559k score from last night, my setup was 5 sergeant, 5 aether, sharpened vMA lightning staff, sharpened vMA restoration staff. It's weird, but trust me, it's awesome.

Main bar:
dampen magic, molten armaments, elemental blockade, dragonscales, inner light, thunderous rage.

Back bar:
Dampen magic (for safety), healing ward, rapid regen, Eruption, inner light, shooting star.

Here's a run from my time when I used elegance instead of sergeant (sergeant is a lot better), but it shows the ease of it pretty well:

https://youtu.be/FjQPiA5XENk

Got flawless conqueror on my third run on the mag dk with that.

For vdsa, you can go with the meta or try this:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/309550/elemental-fury-pve-dps-dk-build-1t-ready#latest

It really melts everything in there and gives the other dd minor force for free, and aether debuff on enemies. If you don't have the vma lightning, go with any crafted sharpened lightning staff.

Thanks for your input

Yinmaigao

Dumb question: how viable is this with 5x Elegant & 5x Sergeant. I can't seem to get IA to drop

Masel

Yinmaigao wrote: »

Dumb question: how viable is this with 5x Elegant & 5x Sergeant. I can't seem to get IA to drop

Will work too, but aether is a lot stronger (minor slayer, 8% overall debuff plus flat damage buff to every heavy attack tick).

Good luck!

Yinmaigao

Looks like Sergeant might get derp'd next patch maybe IA/Elegance & undaunted infiltrator?

*le sigh ZoS*

Masel

Yinmaigao wrote: »

Looks like Sergeant might get derp'd next patch maybe IA/Elegance & undaunted infiltrator?

*le sigh ZoS*

IA and elegance does still work. Sergeant got derped

kylewwefan

What are they going to do to make sergeant not good? Been having a hard time trying to get another sergeant ring to drop.

Masel

kylewwefan wrote: »

What are they going to do to make sergeant not good? Been having a hard time trying to get another sergeant ring to drop.

It got nerfed to only buffing the last tick of a channelled heavy attack, so it will be useless.

pizzaow

Masel92 wrote: »

kylewwefan wrote: »

What are they going to do to make sergeant not good? Been having a hard time trying to get another sergeant ring to drop.

It got nerfed to only buffing the last tick of a channelled heavy attack, so it will be useless.

I think you're referring to this in the patch notes:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Fixed an issue where some item set procs that were meant to fire off of fully-charged Heavy Attacks (such as Sunderflame or Wise Mage) were firing on every tick of a Lightning or Restoration Staff Heavy Attack.

If Sergent's got nerfed than Infallible also got nerfed... IA is a combination of Sergents and Wise Mage (which was explicitly called out). However, are we sure that Sergent's got nerfed? It's not 100% clear to me if just the proc was firing too often (affecting with minor vulnerability/reducing resistance) or if the damage increase also got nerfed.

Sunderflame
When you deal damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack, you deal an additional 774 Flame Damage and reduce the enemy's Physical Resitance by 3440 for 8 seconds.

Wise Mage
Enemies you damage with fully-charged Heavy Attacks are afflicted with Minor Vulnerability for 10 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 8%.

Sergeants
Increases the damage of your fully-charged Heavy Attacks by 1634.

Infallible
Your fully-charged Heavy Attack deal an additional 903 damage. Enemies you damage with fully-charaged Heavy Attacks are affliced with Minor Vulnerabiltiy for 10 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 8%.

Does someone have PTS access that could test?

PS: Great build @Masel92! I want to start doing VMA runs and this seems to be a really easy to play option, so I'll be really bummed if all lightning heavy attack builds got nerfed :-/

Masel

pizzaow wrote: »

Masel92 wrote: »

kylewwefan wrote: »

What are they going to do to make sergeant not good? Been having a hard time trying to get another sergeant ring to drop.

It got nerfed to only buffing the last tick of a channelled heavy attack, so it will be useless.

I think you're referring to this in the patch notes:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Fixed an issue where some item set procs that were meant to fire off of fully-charged Heavy Attacks (such as Sunderflame or Wise Mage) were firing on every tick of a Lightning or Restoration Staff Heavy Attack.

If Sergent's got nerfed than Infallible also got nerfed... IA is a combination of Sergents and Wise Mage (which was explicitly called out). However, are we sure that Sergent's got nerfed? It's not 100% clear to me if just the proc was firing too often (affecting with minor vulnerability/reducing resistance) or if the damage increase also got nerfed.

Sunderflame
When you deal damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack, you deal an additional 774 Flame Damage and reduce the enemy's Physical Resitance by 3440 for 8 seconds.

Wise Mage
Enemies you damage with fully-charged Heavy Attacks are afflicted with Minor Vulnerability for 10 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 8%.

Sergeants
Increases the damage of your fully-charged Heavy Attacks by 1634.

Infallible
Your fully-charged Heavy Attack deal an additional 903 damage. Enemies you damage with fully-charaged Heavy Attacks are affliced with Minor Vulnerabiltiy for 10 seconds, increasing their damage taken by 8%.

Does someone have PTS access that could test?

PS: Great build @Masel92! I want to start doing VMA runs and this seems to be a really easy to play option, so I'll be really bummed if all lightning heavy attack builds got nerfed :-/

I tested all of them myself on the PTS on Monday, and the only sets that got nerfed are Sunderflame, Wise Mage and Sergeants Mail. Infallible Aether remains unchanged and is thus still as nice as it was, the debuff and damage are inflicted on every tick Shame about sergeant though, it was better than elegance for solo play... But elegance is really good as well, so no problem there!

The vMA staff enchant and the undaunted infiltrator set also remains unchanged, but their tooltip is different and was supposed to work the way it did.

pizzaow

Wow, thanks for doing all the testing! It's a little strange that Sergent's got hit, but not Infallible Aether (fingers crossed that it stays that way).
I'm going to start farming for these sets this week... Do you think undaunted infiltrator would be better than elegance?

Masel

No, undaunted infiltrator only works good in the combination of the build I linked earlier. For solo play, it is sergeant and aether or elegance and aether. For aether, just do a few vHRC runs, people give the jewels out a lot by now. Elegance pieces can be bought, but the staves will cost you quite a pile of gold. The sustain is just awesome.

I think they kept aether as it was because they didn't want to enrage all healers that farmed their gear in vain if they did change it.